Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 154
The next night Siegfried takes his place, and wrestles with the mighty maiden.
Who acts: Siegfried · What happens: take · To what, where: place
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Siegfried), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 night | amod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 takes | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Siegfried | Siegfried | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 takes | nsubj |
| 5 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 place | nmod:poss |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 takes | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wrestles | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wrestles | cc |
| 10 | wrestles | wrestle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 takes | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 maiden | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 maiden | det |
| 13 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 maiden | amod |
| 14 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wrestles | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Siegfried | Siegfried's place | night | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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